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Translator of Demian by Hermann Hesse into English - an interlinear translation for German students and those who want to see the original text.
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Sunday, October 23, 2011

For the sake of anyone who wants a really quick comparison of German and Afrikaans I made the following video today:

It's the first ten clauses of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and it serves a purpose in showing the two languages side by side but as a translation of another language there is no emphasis on finding cognates between the two. It would be quite easy to take two translations like this and tailor them to create as many cognates as possible, such as replacing the German Religion with Gottesdienst for Afrikaans godsdiens.

Audio from the Afrikaans and German New Testament might have been a better source too, since the phrases there tend to be terser (just take a look at the lengthy articles 2 and 7 for comparison) and the translations more exact, with lots of repetition too. Matthew 5 for example: